Re: Debian Package files ??????
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On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, John Hoffmann wrote:
> This may sound like a really dumb question and the answer is probably
> stored somewhere in a maze of 2meg readme files, but why are all the
> packages files in the msdos-i386 only 1k? Are these the files I need to
Well, they are not. I don't know where you got that idea. msdos-i386
contans a set of directories grooping up the packages. Then every packages
in msdos-i386 is simply short (msdos compatible) name linked to the
actual package in binary-i386.
> download to install these packages???? How can all the X-Windows files
If you are planing to store the packages on a msdos partion yes, otherwise
you can just as well use the long filenames found in binary. The smootest
way to install it though is to install the base system and let the
packages system download the rest.
>
> Please help this poor college student who has been misguided by the
> world of Windoze 95 :)
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